Scenario details: Verifying your policy is working

This topic contains information about using the monitor to verify that your policy is working as you configured it to work.

1. On the Quality of Service (QoS) configuration window, select Server > Monitor. The QoS Monitor window opens.

2. Select the Inbound admission policy type. This displays all the inbound admission policies. Select Restrict_TheirCo from the list.

   Make sure to check any measured fields, such as accepted requests, dropped requests, total requests, and connection rate. Dropped requests indicate when traffic exceeds the configured policy values. The accepted requests indicate the number of bits controlled by this policy (from the time the packet was started to the present monitor output).

   The value you assign to the Average Connection Request Rate field is also important. When packets exceed this limit, the system begins to drop them. As a result, the dropped requests increase. This shows you that the policy is behaving as you configured. See Monitoring QoS for a description of all the monitor fields.

   Remember that the results are only accurate when the policy is active. Verify the schedule you specified within the policy.

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